Impact of a switch to immediate release on the patient viewing of diagnostic test results in an online portal at an academic medical center.

ABSTRACT: Patient portals allow patients to access their personal health information. The 21st Century Cures Act in the United States sought to eliminate 'information blocking', requiring timely release upon request of electronic health information including diagnostic test results. Some health systems, including the one in the present study, chose a systematic switch to immediate release of all or nearly all diagnostic test results to patient portals as part of compliance with the Cures Act. Our primary objective was to study changes in the time to view test results by patients before and after implementation of Cures Act-related changes. This retrospective pre-post study included data from two 10-month time periods before and after implementation of Cures Act-related changes at an academic medical

SUBMITTER: Wood KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10384271 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature